When rendering a view, I encounter a problem with encoding, i.e. unicode characters are displayed incorrectly.
According to an answer to an unrelated question:
If you experience encoding problems with the output, try saving your view .aspx files as 'Unicode UTF-8 with signature'.
Indeed, my views were saved as UTF-8 without signature; saving them as UTF-8 with signature solves the problem.
Is there a way to specify to ASP.NET MVC that it should use UTF-8 every time, in order to be able to use UTF-8 without signature for the newly stored views?